Introduction Urticaria is widely spread disease. About 15-20 % of population has experienced at least once in a life time. The etiology of urticaria is uncertain till now, and the affcting factors are various chemical material, physical factors, alcohol, fever, exercise, and hormone, etc. The symptoms of urticaria are small or large wheal-erythema reaction and itching or tingling sense. Cause there is no probe to detect the urticaria clearly, the treatment of urticaria is symptomatic. And mostly urticaria can be chronic and very hard to treat it fundamentally. Nowadays, many trials to treat the urticaria in oriental medical way show good curability. In this paper I'd like to report the treatment rate and degree of urticaria patients mostly using anti-histamine medication. Subjects From the outpatients who visited Korean Hospital of Kyunghee Kangnam during 2000-4 and 2002-1, the 36 chronic urticaria patients, at least more than 4 weeks from onset and 2weeks of treatment period, were chosen.
Methods: I evaluated the results of treatment with the following scale. Very Good: The all symptoms are clearly disappeared or one third of symptoms remain and sometimes eruption is appeared. Good: Half of the symptoms are improved but most of symptoms remain. No Change: No change appears before and after treatment. Worse: The degree and duration of eruption get worse than pre-treatment state.
Results: For Acupuncture treatment, I chose the several Acu points like Hapgok(합곡), Taichung(대충), Gokji(곡지), Yanggok(양곡), Yanggea(양계), and lmeup(족임읍), and usually lasted it 15 minutes. With the acupuncture treatment and herb medicine, 2-3 times a week, the patients whose treatment period was 2 to 4 weeks were 17(47.2%), 4 to 8 weeks were 11(30.5%), 8 to 12 weeks were 3(8.3%), 12 to 16 weeks were 3(8.3%), longer than 16 weeks were 2(5.5%) Collecting the statistics of the frequency of prescripted herb medicine, Hyangsosan(향소산) was prescripted 21 times(58.3%), Hyangsapyungwisan(향사평위산) was 15 times(41.6%), Hwapisan(화피산) was 9 times(25%), Yangwitang(양위탕) was 6 times(16.6%), Bojungikkitang(보중익기탕가미) was 4 times(11.1%), Yongdamsagantang (용담사간탕가미) was 4 times(11.1%). The result of the treatments, evaluating with mentioned rate scale, was 11 cases(30.5%) were Very Good degree, 19 cases(52.7%) were Good , 6 cases(16.6$\%$ 수식 이미지) were No Change. No cases were Worse degree.
Conclusion According to this research, we could say that chronic urticaria can be treated with Oriental medical methods. But more precise probes in both Oriental and Western medicine to diagnose the chronic urticaria should be established and we need to make standards for testing and diagnosing the chronic urticaria.
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